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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has secured its first commission from Irish public broadcaster RTÉ — a noir thriller from The Spanish Princess and Mr Selfridge writer Kate O’Riordan. BBC Studios is partnering with Irish producer Treasure Entertainment to make Smother, a six-part series set on the rugged coast of County Clare…

Pennyworth's Anna Chancellor and Outlander's James Fleet have joined the cast of BBC America's The Watch, based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. The pair are the latest actors to join the BBC Studios and Narrativia-produced series, joining lead Richard Dormer. Chancellor stars as Lord Vetinari, The Patrician…

Game of Thrones star Richard Dormer is to lead the cast of BBC America's The Watch, based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Dormer stars as Sam Vimes, Captain of The Watch, disempowered by a broken society that's reduced his department's jurisdiction to almost nothing, in the eight-part series, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Watch, BBC America’s eight-episode series based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, has cast its first main character. British actor Adam Hugill (Pennyworth) has landed one of the lead roles in the series, playing Carrot. Described as a "punk rock thriller" inspired by the City Watch subset of…

The Watch, based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, has landed a series order at BBC America. The Killing Eve broadcaster has greenlit an eight-part series from BBC Studios, after Deadline revealed the project was in development in March. The U.S. cable network describes the show as a "punk rock thriller"…

July 27-29 Weekend Actuals 1. The Dark Knight Rises (Legendary/Warner Bros) Week 2 [4,404 Runs] PG13 Friday $17.7M, Saturday $24.7M, Sunday $19.7M, Weekend $62.1M (-61%), Cume $287.1M 2. Ice Age 4 3D (Fox) Week 3 [3,869 Runs] PG Friday $4.0M, Saturday $5.3M, Sunday $4.0M, Weekend $13.4M (-35%), Cume $114.9M 3. The Watc…

Warner Bros confirmed this evening it has moved Gangster Squad from September 7 to January 11, 2013. The delay will allow filmmakers to excise a shootout scene that takes place in a movie theater, due to the Aurora, Colorado tragedy at a midnight Thursday screening of The Dark Knight Rises. An alternate murder spree…

Harkins Theatres is a family owned and operated business and the 6th largest theatre chain in North America. Founded and based in Arizona since 1933, it has 30 locations in five states. Harkins today announced on its Facebook page that it won’t play The Watch starting Friday because it couldn’t agree on financial…

Related It’s Official: WB Delays ‘Gangster Squad’ Till January 11 UPDATED, 7:36 PM: Warner Bros confirmed today that it has moved Gangster Squad from September 7 to January 11. The move allows the filmmakers to excise a shootout scene that takes place in a movie theater, which nobody wants to see after the Aurora…

Here’s 20th Century Fox‘s red-band trailer for the retitled alien invasion comedy The Watch. Fox abandoned its original marketing scheme for the formerly titled Neighborhood Watch to avoid any unintended association with the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin tragedy in Florida. The R-rated comedy concerns a group of…